TELEGRAMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22723, 8 November 1935, Page 12

TELEGRAMS

(Pee United Press Association) AUCKLAND, November 7. Donald Stewart Mackenzie, aged 30, a school teacher, who was recently discharged from the Roto 11 oa Inebriates’ Island, where he was a voluntary patient, was sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment for, wrongfully signing another man's name •to a telegram without authority. He pleaded guilty. The police said the accused returned from the island on October 18, and, having £2O, he went to an hotel, where he consumed a large quantity of whisky. He then despatched a telegram to.his father requesting £5, and attached the signature of P. E. Norman, the superintendent of the inebriates’ island. Mr Wilson remarked that the offence was a grave one, the maximum penalty being 12 months’ imprisonment, or a fine of £IOO.

PALMERSTON N., November 7. The Manawatu Gorge road is again blocked by a large slip, and it is unlikely that it will he cleared till Staurday owing to the hillside creeping, TAURANGA, November 7.

The Paeroa-Tauranga train ran into a small slip of rock at Karangahake this morning. The engine was slightly damaged, but, as there were two engines on the train, the damaged one was pulled on to a siding and the slip soon cleared. On the arrival of an engine from Waihi the train proceeded to Tauranga, arriving two hours and a-half late. BLENHEIM. November 7.

The protracted litigation which has resulted .from the application by Ernest Herbert Brooker, of Wellington, for a prospecting licence over an area at Mnha kipawa, was carried a stage further in the Warden’s Court this morning when a further phase of the objection taken by Mahakipawa Goldfields was - opened iin. In the upshot the warden, Mr T. EMaunsell, deemed the legal aspects of the case of such importance that he had de cided do state the case to the Supreme Court for decision. This will he the second time the matter has been before a higher court,, as an appeal from the warden's decision on artother aspect was beard at the last sessions.